Feature Image Credits: Gulf News
Riva Tulpule, a 15-year old Indian teenager who is living in the UAE with her parents has helped recycle over 25 tonnes of e-waste by means of her campaign ‘WeCareDXB’. This campaign enlists volunteers like students, professionals, the general public to collect the items for recycling e-waste. She then got in touch with a Dubai based e-recycler called ‘EnviroServe’ to hand over the collected items.
She got the idea to start the campaign while clearing out drawers filled with broken devices in 2016, the Gulf News reported. “I had asked my mom why we can’t we just dispose of the items we don’t need. She told me they need to be tacked in a special way but we were not sure exactly how to go about it. So that made me curious and I decided to do some research into it, which led me to this cause,” Tulpule was quoted as saying by the report.
She added, saying that many people simply dump old devices and appliances in the general waste as they are not aware of the options for recycling them.
Recently, the 15-year-old held her latest collection round, rallying friends and the wider community to drop off over 2,000 broken laptops, tabs, mobile phones, printers, keyboards, and other items at a villa next door to her where is enough holding space.